Lesson on the family, CM1 (French fourth grade). Teacher hands out British Royal Family tree.
Teacher: What is the English word for roi?
[Students don't know.]
Teacher: There's a famous fast-food restaurant called Burger...?
CM1 student: Cheese!
Lesson on Thanksgiving, CE2 (French third grade).
Me: So what do people have to do before they eat Thanksgiving dinner? [I'm looking for cooking the meal here.]
CE2 student: They have the apératif?
Stage d'anglais with French lycéens (high schoolers). Celebrity "Guess Who?"; celebrity in question is Willow Smith. She's ten years old, father's an actor, and...
Lily: What does she like to do?
French lycéenne: She whips her hair?
Same stage d'anglais, same lycéens, same celebrity "Guess Who?" Tiny French teenage boy draws name we don't recognize. Class shrieks in laughter.
Lily: Who is that?
French lycéen: She has very big breasts.
Thus Lily and I are introduced to Lolo Ferrari, the deceased French porn star who appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest boobs, at size 54J. I kid you not.
And enfin, here's a picture of the lovely purple flower one of my CM2 (French fifth grade) students brought me from her garden. Trop sympa!
